On 6 Apr 2003, at 3:57, jim barchuk wrote:

<snip>
> At 115k the first line *always* drops several of chars *before* the first
> CRLF. Never the same chars. The rest of the screen is almost always
> flawless, drops a few here and there, only about 2-3% of full screens have
> an error. But I can induce a few more drops by making Win 'do something'
> such as switching to other windows. I can see behind what I switch to that
> chars are dropped, and capture to log to make sure they really are
> dropped. Overall is obviously not working well.
>
<snip>
> At 38k I grabbed 500k while doing several windows Find searches, reading
> email, 'cat'ting a few meg through PuTTY, and using a text editor in a DOS
> box. The drive, screen, and system in general was doing a lot of stuff but
> the capture was -perfect-.
>
> So the Q is whether it's *remotely* *possible* that these nonpolariZed
> caps could cause these errors?
>
> I don't want to change them if it's less than likely to fix anything; I'd
> chalk it up to Win and live with the 38k.

I have not followed the thread about caps but basically what you are up
against is Windows - as you have so well proven.
If you MUST use windows then handshaking is essential at high speeds to
avoid overruns.

regards,

George Smith

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